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ORNITHOLOGY and entomology have sustained a great loss by the death of Mr. Osbert Salvin, which occurred on the 1st inst. at his beautiful residence Hawksfold, near Haslemere. The second and only surviving son of the late Mr. Anthony Salvin, the well-known architect, he was born in 1835, and received his education at Westminster and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated as a Senior Optime in the Natural Science Tripos of 1857. Immediately after taking his degree he, together with Mr. W. H. Hudleston (then Simpson), joined Mr. (now Canon) Tristram in his natural history exploration of Tunis and Eastern Algeria, where they passed five months. In the autumn of the same year Mr. Salvin proceeded to Guatemala, where, chiefly in company with the late Mr. G. U. Skinner, the celebrated collector of orchids, he stayed till the middle of 1858, returning to Central America (henceforth always to be associated with his name) about twelve months later.
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N. Osbert Salvin, F.R.S. Nature 58, 129 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058129a0
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